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Poetic Confessions of a Coffee-Drunk Disillusioned Housewife: A Collection of Poetry on Marriage, Motherhood, and the Messy Art of Becoming
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 9 2025
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens after the affair is discovered-but life still expects you to keep going?
Poetic Confessions of a Coffee-Drunk Disillusioned Housewife is a raw collection of confessional poetry about the private aftermath of betrayal: the lies, the gaslighting, the intrusive memories, the panic, the emotional abuse, and the complicated reality of staying when leaving is not simple.
Written alongside the memoir Confessions of a Disillusioned Housewife, this collection is the inner monologue behind the story-the thoughts that surface after the house goes quiet, the coffee goes cold, the phone buzzes in the dark, and two people lie awake in the same room pretending everything is normal.
Across four emotional movements-The First Confession, The Lingering Truths, The Reckoning, and The Calm After-the poems trace marriage after infidelity from the first shock of discovery to a fragile form of acceptance. Therapy rooms, motherhood, financial fear, domestic labor, body memories, broken trust, boundaries, and the slow reclamation of identity become part of the emotional record.
Some pieces are sharp and breathless.
Some sit heavy and still.
All of them are honest.
This is not self-help. It is not a marriage-repair manual, a polished forgiveness story, or a tidy promise of healing. It is emotionally raw poetry about betrayal trauma, depression, panic, female anger, survival, and what it means to keep showing up while privately falling apart.
This collection does not tell women whether they should stay or leave. It gives language to the painful space between those choices-and to the woman quietly rebuilding herself while the world still expects her to smile.
For readers of contemporary confessional poetry, poetic memoir, and emotionally honest women's writing-and for every woman who has survived cheating, gaslighting, and the exhausting work of learning to trust herself again.
Content note: Intended for adult readers. Contains strong language and themes involving infidelity, emotional and verbal abuse, domestic-violence references, depression, suicidal ideation, panic, trauma responses, alcohol misuse, smoking, marijuana use, adoption trauma, financial dependence, and adult sexual imagery.
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